 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 páginas
...place among the males. About the tenth of that month they commence building. The nest is usually fixed among the horizontal branches of an apple-tree; sometimes...three or four in number, are placed; these are of a uniform greenish blue colour, and of a size proportionable to that of the bird. While the female... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 426 páginas
...month, they commence building. The nest is usually fixed among the horizontal branches of an apple tree; sometimes in a solitary thorn, crab, or cedar, in...three or four in number, are placed; these are of a uniform greenish blue colour, and of a size proportionable to that of the bird. While the female... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 páginas
...they commence building. The nest is usually fixed among the horizontal branches of an apple tree ; sometimes in a solitary thorn, crab, or cedar, in...three or four in number, are placed ; these are of a uniform greenish blue colour, and of a size proportionable to that of the bird. While the female... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 páginas
...pair and build in May ; " the nest is usually fixed among the horizontal branches of an apple tree ; sometimes in a solitary thorn, crab, or cedar, in...three or four in number, are placed ; these are of a uniform greenish blue colour, and of a size proportionable to that of the bird. While the female... | |
 | 1838 - 944 páginas
...they commence building. The nest is usually fixed among the horizontal branches of an apple tree ; sometimes in a solitary thorn, crab, or cedar, in...weeds, and blossoms of the common maple. On this almost il.ii bed the eggs, usually three or four in number, arc placed ; these are of a uniform greenish blue... | |
 | William Chapman Hewitson - 1846 - 394 páginas
...amongst the males. About the tenth of the month, they begin building. The nest is usually fixed amongst the horizontal branches of an apple-tree ; sometimes...eggs, usually three or four in number, are placed. While the female is sitting, the male is usually not far distant, and gives the alarm by his notes... | |
 | John Cotton (F.Z.S.) - 1855 - 242 páginas
...fastened to a horizontal branch. Wilson says that the sticks and twigs of which it is composed are intermixed with green weeds and blossoms of the common...three or four in number, are placed ; these are of a uniform greenish-blue colour, and of a size proportionable to that of the bird. While the female... | |
 | John George Wood - 1862 - 804 páginas
...place among the males. About the tenth of that month they commence building. The. nest is usually fixed among the horizontal branches of an apple-tree ; sometimes...three or four in number, are placed; these are of a uniform greenish blue colour, and of a size proportionable to that of the bird. While the female... | |
 | John George Wood - 1862 - 804 páginas
...place among the males. About the tenth of that month they commence building. The nest is usually fixed among the horizontal branches of an apple-tree ; sometimes...three or four in number, are placed ; these are of a uniform greenish blue colour, and of a size proportionable to that of the bird. While the female... | |
 | John George Wood - 1862 - 804 páginas
...place among the males. -About the tenth of that month they commence building. The nest is usually fixed among the horizontal branches of an apple-tree ; sometimes...three or four in number, are placed ; these are of a uniform greenish blue colour, and of a size proportionable to that of the bird. While the female... | |
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The nest is usually fixed among the horizontal branches of an apple-tree; sometimes in a solitary thorn, crab or cedar, in some retired part of the woods. It is constructed with little art, and scarcely any concavity, of small sticks and twigs, intermixed... 
